Best movies like Nick and Jane
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Plot Summary:
N.Y. corporate Jane discovers her boyfriend John in bed with another woman, leaves building enraged and jumps into cab. Her driver is Nick. Jane and her friend Vickie have a plan - to make John jealous, they'll give Nick a false corporate identity and pass him off as Jane's new boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo screwball comedy
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Me Myself I (1999)
Plot Summary:
Pamela Drury is unhappy, and alone. On her birthday she stumbles across a photo of Robert Dickson, and wonders what would've happened had she said yes to his proposal. A freak accident causes Pamela to live out the life she could've had, but is the grass on the other side always greener?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Australia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, independent film, sentimental, offbeat, feel good, semi serious, funny, light, romantic
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Missed Connections (2012)
Plot Summary:
Lonely Neal attempts to get over a recent break-up by responding to "Missed Connections" ads on Craigslist, then swooping in like a knight in shining armor when the expected guy fails to show up at the scheduled meeting. For a while the Neal's plan works great, but when he tries it on Jane, she proves that women are just as crafty as men when it comes to playing the dating game.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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May Wine (1990)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged woman and her daughter unknowingly become romantically involved with the same man while vacationing in France.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Young Bride (1976)
Plot Summary:
A shop assistant in a record shop falls in love with a young writer, who loves classical music but can not find a publisher who publishes his first novel.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Love Happens (1999)
Plot Summary:
What do animals, allergies and a bet have in common? A commitment-phobic woman named Lisa Harris. Lisa may hold the record for most failed short-term relationships in modern history. It's not that she doesn't want to find her true love, it's just that she doesn't seem to know what true love means.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Roman Holiday (1987)
Plot Summary:
TV movie remake of the 1953 original. A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Fast Food Fast Women (2000)
Plot Summary:
How important is the truth when falling in love? Bella is a Manhattan café waitress, about to turn 35, stuck in a long-term affair going nowhere. Paul is a widower, facing old age alone. Bella's mother sets her up with Bruno, a novelist/cabbie who likes to bed-hop and whose ex-wife expects their two children to stay with him for awhile. While Bruno learns some maturity from his young daughter, Paul answers a personals ad placed by a "widow, 60." The two couples - along with one of Paul's older pals and a Jungian stripper - sort out how to initiate a relationship these days, what to do when someone you like disappoints you, and when to tell the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, emotional, melancholic, intense, sentimental, clever, stylized, sweet, humorous, realistic
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Leo and Loree (1980)
Plot Summary:
Ralph Malph from Philly moves to Hollywood with dreams of making it big, amazingly hooks up with starlet-to-be, loses starlet-to-be, gets back starlet-to-be, and becomes someone.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Let It Snow (1999)
Plot Summary:
Our two young lovers meet on a series of snowy days in high school. Years later they reconnect in Manhattan, but life is more complicated. Sarah sleeps with her beeper. James goes to "open-mike therapy". As Sarah plans her wedding to someone else, James prays for snow and a second chance at first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, sincere, clever, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, contemplative, talky
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About Fate (2022)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers believe in love but never seem to be able to find its true meaning. In a wild twist of events, fate puts each in the other's path on one stormy New Year's Eve.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: feel good
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Walking the Dog (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kristie Simmons, an attorney, initiates a legal battle trying to get approval for a bike lane for the local residents. When Bill, a local veterinarian, informs her that a dog named Gidget needs a home, Kristie agrees. While out walking Gidget, Kristie meets Keith Amos, an attorney on assignment from Seattle, while he's walking his lovable dog, Simon. Keith is immediately smitten with Kristie, her initially pleasant reaction to him turns sour when she learns he is her opposing counsel in the bike lane case.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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It Happened One Valentine's (2017)
Plot Summary:
When ambitious reporter Allie Rusch is recruited by vindictive music manager Vivian Cartwright to play cupid to famous pop musicians Caleb Greene and Carson Peet in return for an exclusive story over Valentine's weekend, Allie soon realizes Caleb has his sights set on her. Now, torn between her big career move and her growing feelings for Caleb, Allie is left to question whether she can coerce Caleb into something his heart does not desire, or if she should fall in love and make him her very own Valentine.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love Is All There Is (1996)
Plot Summary:
The Malacicis, a hard-working Italian family recently immigrated from Florence, open a fancy restaurant in the Bronx, N.Y., drawing the ire of another clan. Mike and Sadie Capomezzo, equally hard-working Sicilian caterers from the area, find they cannot stand Piero and Maria Malacici. But things get complicated when the Malacicis' daughter, Gina, and the Capomezzos' son, Rosario, fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spectacular, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, psychological, romantic, sexy, thought provoking
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The Baxter (2005)
Plot Summary:
A man with a "doormat" personality tries standing up for himself for a change in this comedy. Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman (Michael Showalter) is what he calls a "Baxter": the kind of calm, unexciting fellow who "wears sock garters" and "enjoys raking leaves." Loved by bosses and parents, Elliot is a perfectly nice guy. And that's his problem.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, touching, feel good, witty, funny, romantic, clever, talky, offbeat
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A Rainy Day in New York (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend; once they arrive they are met with bad weather and a series of adventures.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, colorful, humorous, disturbing, atmospheric, feel good, sweet, controversial, artsy
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Mr. Jealousy (1997)
Plot Summary:
After his first date at age 15 ended with the girl making out with another man at a party, aspiring writer Lester Grimm has treated all his girlfriends with jealousy and suspicion. While dating Ramona Ray, paranoia gets the best of him when he discovers that her most recent ex is successful novelist Dashiell Frank. Lester begins attending the same group therapy sessions as Dashiell to learn about Ramona's past with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, humorous, witty, talky, realistic, semi serious, funny, romantic, sexy
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If Lucy Fell (1996)
Plot Summary:
Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe, who is infatuated with a neighbor he's never met, that if they don't have stable romances within a month, they must jump off the Brooklyn Bridge.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, sweet, melancholic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, offbeat, funny
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The Night We Never Met (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another flat: he gets two nights a week, the owner (a sleazy frat-boy yuppie named Brian, soon to be married) and Ellen (a would-be painter seeking relief from her boring marriage) each get their seperate nights in the flat. Things go extremely well until Sam and Brian swap nights without telling Ellen, who attributes the "nice" things that happen around the place to the slob Brian, while berating the responsible Sam for his hedonistic lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: offbeat, clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Never Again (2001)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 967
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, witty, semi serious, romantic, independent film, romantic comedy, realistic
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Happy Together (1989)
Plot Summary:
Christopher is an ambitious college freshman, striving to become a writer. Through a computer fault he's assigned the same room as Alex, a real party freak and... a girl! He's annoyed and tries to get a different room as soon as possible, but when he learns to know her, he also starts to like her. She not only improves his sexual life, but also his writing skills.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, melancholic, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, funny, atmospheric
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Long Shot (2019)
Plot Summary:
Fred Flarsky is a gifted and free-spirited journalist who has a knack for getting into trouble. Charlotte Field is one of the most influential women in the world -- a smart, sophisticated and accomplished politician. When Fred unexpectedly runs into Charlotte, he soon realizes that she was his former baby sitter and childhood crush. When Charlotte decides to make a run for the presidency, she impulsively hires Fred as her speechwriter -- much to the dismay of her trusted advisers.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 119000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, Colombia
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, feel good, romantic comedy, funny, humorous, political, captivating, family comedy, cult classic
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Forces of Nature (1999)
Plot Summary:
Ben Holmes, a professional book-jacket blurbologist, is trying to get to Savannah for his wedding. He just barely catches the last plane, but a seagull flies into the engine as the plane is taking off. All later flights are cancelled because of an approaching hurricane, so he is forced to hitch a ride in a Geo Metro with an attractive but eccentric woman named Sara.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, romantic, entertaining, feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, offbeat, realistic
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Three Can Play That Game (2007)
Plot Summary:
Shanté Smith has moved to Atlanta where she's the Love Doctor, helping women get their men to the altar. Tiffany calls her after she catches her boyfriend, Byron, in a clinch with his boss, Carla, just after he wins a competition similar to "The Apprentice." Shanté initiates a five-step program for Tiffany while Byron seeks advice from his best friend, Gizzard. The five steps include her meeting his family and her offering and withholding sex; Byron and Gizzard respond with their own strategies. Then, Bryon consults Shanté: has the Love Doctor switched sides? And, what happens if Byron finds out that Tiffany's playing games? Can true love run without a play book?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, black comedy, clever
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Mylove Lost (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mario (Dani Rovira) and Olivia (Michelle Jenner) fall madly in love. One afternoon, considering that every relationship ends, they end up breaking up. During the big fight, Miamor, the street cat adopted by both and who only attends if they call him "Miamor" and speak to him in Valencian, escapes and disappears, like the love that united them. For a time Olivia will give him for dead, love and the cat, while Mario keeps him alive in secret. Like Schrodingüer's cat, the love between the two remains alive and dead at the same time until, one day when she seems to have finally risen, Olivia feels victimized by a deception and decides to declare to Mario the war, one in the that, as in the love that still breathes, everything can be worth.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Faith, Hope & Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
Faith, a recent divorcee, enters a dance contest to save her dance studio, where she meets Jimmy and starts rediscovering her faith and dreams.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy
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Something About Love (2021)
Plot Summary:
Opposites Isa and Ruben are totally in love and over the moon with each other. Until Mr. Perfect steps into Isa's life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Tell Me I Love You (2019)
Plot Summary:
A modern romantic comedy about 3 Malibu best friends, roommates and bandmates discovering their dreams and discovering love with a crazy plot to make some cash on the way.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Starting Up Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young finance executive inherits her uncle's mountain cabin only to discover that he also left half of it to the ruggedly handsome handyman that had been caring for it.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love in the Villa (2022)
Plot Summary:
A young woman takes a trip to romantic Verona, Italy, after a breakup, only to find that the villa she reserved was double-booked, and she'll have to share her vacation with a cynical British man.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, romantic comedy
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The Hating Game (2021)
Plot Summary:
Resolving to achieve professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy embarks on a ruthless game of one-upmanship against cold and efficient nemesis Joshua, a rivalry that is complicated by her growing attraction to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy, entertaining, semi serious, light, cute, captivating